Latest News Releases

Talks at critical stage for first contract at Kamloops Seniors Village
August 9, 2010 (News Release)

Lodge on 4th layoffs spark appeal to Ladysmith council to support seniors’ care: resolution going to council Monday night
April 30, 2010 (News Release)

Health care workers and seniors’ advocates ask Ladysmith Town Council to voice its opposition to contracting out

Health coalition questions health board appointment
April 29, 2010 (News Release)

BCHC calls into question the provincial government’s commitment to defend public health care in the courts

Fraser Health’s planned cuts to sterile processing shortsighted
April 23, 2010 (News Release)

HEU says workloads in sterile processing already high and urges FHA to reconsider move in interests of patient safety

New hospital funding formula’s impact on patient care unclear
April 12, 2010 (News Release)

Lodge on 4th lays off health care workers to make way for contracting out
April 1, 2010 (News Release)

Quality and continuity of care and support for residents jeopardized

Health care workers ratify two-year agreement
March 19, 2010 (News Release)

Hospital and long-term care workers have voted 77 per cent in favour of a new two-year collective agreement with B.C.’s health employers

B.C. budget means more cuts to health care
March 2, 2010 (News Release)

Despite funding increases, B.C. government support for health care has fallen from second to eighth place in Canada

Tentative agreement reached for 48,000 hospital and long-term care workers
February 8, 2010 (News Release)

B.C. fails to meet international women’s rights standards – B.C. CEDAW Group
February 2, 2010 (News Release)

Report highlights B.C.’s lack of action to protect women and girls, failure to address violence and poverty

National tour on seniors’ care comes to Burnaby, Kamloops,Victoria this week
January 19, 2010 (News Release)